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The Moon on Thursday, April 25, 1940: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 19°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on April 25, 1940Waning Gibbous

Thursday 25 April 1940376,729 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 25, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.8% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
376,729 km234,088 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 25, 1940 is on Monday, April 22, 1940 at 04:37 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, May 7, 1940 at 12:07 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, April 22, 194004:37
Last Quarter (after)Monday, April 29, 194007:49

The Moon around April 25

More about this date

Thursday, April 25, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 7, 1940 to the new moon of May 7, 1940, a cycle of 29.66 days.